Best History Museums Spot List

The building and the interior itself are the display! Experience Kyoto's elegance

You’ll feel as if you’ve gone back in time to prehistoric times.

An octagonal, three-story western-style home in Maiko Park

A museum where visitors can see the various works and crafts created by the people of the old capital of Nara.

Learn how Hideyoshi Toyotomi bathed

Learn about the culture of Niigata

An open-air museum where historical buildings having high cultural value are restored and displayed on a large site.

An exhibit featuring contact and change between Eastern and Western cultures

Hokkaido's oldest museum of Ainu culture, with exhibits featuring lifestyle objects and clothing

Once a storehouse, now a museum showcasing Otaru's history and nature

Discover the history of a beer dating back to Hokkaido's frontier age

Chock-full of discoveries about northern peoples

All sorts of history-rich trains on display

Passing down Ainu lifestyle and culture

This museum was once a ferry that connected Japan's main island to Hokkaido

Buildings that saw actual usage offer a unique historical experience

Fukumatsu Tanaka, the ”Herring Magnate” leader of a fisherman's union, built this lodge in Tomari-mura. Displays include implements related to the herring industry

Showcases the culture of northern tribes in expert detail

Reproduces the streets of Fukagawa Saga-cho in the Edo Period so visitors can see the scene and lifestyle of that period.

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